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.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.