The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.