It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.