“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.”

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”

“I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.”

“Man is a piece of the universe made alive”