As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

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

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

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.