... 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.

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

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.