Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

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