There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

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

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

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.