Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.