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.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

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.

Light is the shadow of God.