“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”

“But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.”

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

“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.”

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

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”