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

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

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

"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."