Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

The proud man is forsaken of God.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay