Excellence is the new forever.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

Fear always springs from ignorance.