....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.

From the end spring new beginnings.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Hope is a working-man's dream.