As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

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?

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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