Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

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.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.