It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.