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

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

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.