O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.