A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

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.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

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.