As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.