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.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

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

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.