Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

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.

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

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.