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.

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.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

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

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.