Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

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.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.