Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

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

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

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.