Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.