Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

The woman that deliberates is lost.