He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.