Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.