Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.