Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

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

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.