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

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.