I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.