The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

I believe in deeply ordered chaos

God's first creature, which was light.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.