It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Books, the children of the brain.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.