One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.