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

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.