Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

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.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

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

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.