He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as muc… - John Aubrey

Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.

Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Farie.

His insatiable passion for singular odds and ends had a meaning in it; he was groping towards a scientific ordering of phenomena; but the twilight of his age was too confusing, and he could rarely distinguish between a fact and a fantasy.