Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

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

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

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

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.