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

- William Lilly

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

- William Lilly

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

- William Lilly

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or se…

- William Lilly

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

- William Lilly

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

- William Lilly

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and …

- William Lilly

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

- William Lilly

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

- William Lilly