For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

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.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.