This visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes. - Thomas Browne

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.

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich