Occupation: Author Birth: October 19, 1605 Death: October 19, 1682
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….
Light is but the shadow of God..
All the wonders you seek are within yourself..
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us..
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..
Think before you act; think twice before you speak..
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich..
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits..
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks..
Every Country hath its Machiavel..
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….
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us..
The religion of one seems madness unto another..
Light is the shadow of God..
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather th….
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity..
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another..
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude..
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….
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one..
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles..