"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."

"Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage, to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting."

"For the mind is not a tabula rasa upon which impressions are made, but rather a wax tablet upon which impressions are made, and which retains them for a time."

"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."

"The contemplation of things as they are, without superstition or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."