Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.

Art is the perfection of nature.

We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.

The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.

A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.