Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

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.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

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