Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

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

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.