Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.