History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.