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

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

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.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.