"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."

"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

"We will never become what we could be by remaining as we are."

"It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured."

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle."