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.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Women do most delight in revenge.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.