All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

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.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.