Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

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

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.