There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

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

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Women do most delight in revenge.