Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

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

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.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.