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

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.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

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

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.