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

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Light is the shadow of God.