Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Women do most delight in revenge.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.