"Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition."

"Evil into the mind of God or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind."

"Such as the dead are, and their memory; Such as the dead are, and their memory."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are."

"Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!"