He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.