“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.”

“Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”

“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.”

“A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it ”