Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

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

Every Country hath its Machiavel.