There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.