Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

Use time to convert yourself

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.