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

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.