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

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

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.