I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

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.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.