"I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant of all; I know I am one of nature's littl…"

"I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked with everything; And to conclude, I know myself a m…"

"Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thr…"

"Why did my parents send me to the schools That I with knowledge might enrich my mind? Since the desire to know first …"

"What can we know, or what can we discern, When error chokes the windows of the mind, The diverse forms of things, how…"

"We seek to know the moving of each sphere, And the strange cause of th' ebbs and floods of Nile; But of that clock wi…"

"We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, And pass both tropics and behold the poles, When we come home, are to our…"

"As spiders touched seek their webs' inmost part, As bees in storms unto their hives return, As blood in danger gather…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"