He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another