Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.