We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

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

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

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.