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

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

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

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

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.