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?

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.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.