Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.