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.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

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

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.