Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.