To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

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

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

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