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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it... →
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the... →
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of... →
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a... →
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