Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

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

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

The man without a navel still lives in me.