"For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?"

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns."

"Marriage is a covenant, not a sacrament."

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."