[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Wisdom is infused into every form.