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.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.