We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Every Country hath its Machiavel.
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.