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

“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”

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”

“Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.”

“For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.”

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.”

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”