If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.