They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Whatever you can, count.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.