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

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

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.