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

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

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.

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe.