Light is the shadow of God.
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
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.