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

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

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.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.