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.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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

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

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.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.