"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and better discovereth God's favour."

"The works of God are great and wonderful, but the works of man are often small and contemptible."

"The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in minds of some nobility."

"The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curio…"