I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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.