Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others..

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea….

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man..

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes be….

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference ….

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to los….

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that….

Human nature craves novelty..

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good..

The only certainty is uncertainty.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man..

There is always something new out of Africa..

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding..

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man..

Human nature is fond of novelty..

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together ….

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on ….

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the sen….

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it..

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew..

The brain is the citadel of sense perception..