We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Light is the shadow of God.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

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.