With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

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

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.