Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.