Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

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.

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

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.