for by compassion we make anothers misery our own, and so by relieving them, we relieve our selves also. - Thomas Browne

These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.

for as though there were a Metempsuchosis, and the soule of one man passed into another, opinions doe find after certain revolutions, men and mindes like those that first begat them.

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers;