Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.