To Me Avarice Seems Not So Much

Flattery Is A Juggler, And No Kin Unto Sincerity.

Think Not Thy Time Short In This World, Since The World Itself Is Not Long. The Created World Is But A Small Parenthesis In Eternity, And A Short Interposition, For A Time, Between Such A State Of Duration As Was Before It And May Be After It.

God Hath Varied The Inclinations Of Men According To The Variety Of Actions To Be Performed.

If There Be Any Among Those Common Objects Of Hatred I Do Contemn And Laugh At, It Is That Great Enemy Of Reason, Virtue, And Religion, The Multitude; That Numerous Piece Of Monstrosity, Which, Taken Asunder, Seem Men, And The Reasonable Creatures Of God, But, Confused Together, Make But One Great Beast, And A Monstrosity More Prodigious Than Hydra.

We Do But Learn To-day What Our Better Advanced Judgements Will Unteach Us Tomorrow.