Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.