And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other