Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.