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….

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another..

Think before you act; think twice before you speak..

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us..

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits..

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles..

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one..

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich..

Light is but the shadow of God..

Every Country hath its Machiavel..

All the wonders you seek are within yourself..

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude..

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks..

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness..

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 p….

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two..

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live..

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public….

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles….

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies ….

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity..