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

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

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.

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

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.