Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.