Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Time is the greatest innovator.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.