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

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

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

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

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

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.