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.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.