Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

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.