... 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.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.