That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Light is but the shadow of God.

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

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?