That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

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.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.