It is we that are blind, not fortune.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

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

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

... 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.