And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.