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

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

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.