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 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.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

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

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.

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?