Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.