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

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

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

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.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.