How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

When everything is going wrong, it seems like nothing goes right

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

The great artist is the simplifier.