We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

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.