Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.