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

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

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.