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.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

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.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

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.

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