But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

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.

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.