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.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

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

Study prophecies when they are become histories.