If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.