Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.