I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

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

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.