Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

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