Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.