When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Life well spent is long.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.