In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.