“His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum [the ways of mankind]. Now our present writers reflect so much on particular persons and coxcombeities that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood.”
“Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and ...”
John Aubrey
“There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.”
John Aubrey
“He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spen...”
John Aubrey
“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.”
John Aubrey
“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 much as other men, he should have knowne no more than ...”
John Aubrey