Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

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

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