... 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.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

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

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

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.