"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."

"The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."

"The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to search it out."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."