I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

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

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

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