"The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human nature."

"A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."

"Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old authors to read."

"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

"For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."