I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

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

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.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.