Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.