He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.