Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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

Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.