I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

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.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.