We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.