A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

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

Light is the shadow of God.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.