For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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