More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.