Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.