Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Home is where the heart is.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?