... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.