Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Language is the dress of thought.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself