In charity there is no excess.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.