Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Reading maketh a full man.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.