Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

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

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.