They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

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.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

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

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.