Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.