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

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

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

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.