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

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.