Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.