“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.”

“Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.”

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.”

“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”

“No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.”

“Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.”