The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Science is but an image of the truth.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

By indignities men come to dignities.