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.

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

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

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

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.