We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.