The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.