Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

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

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.