Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Colors speak all languages.