I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
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.