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

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

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