To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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?

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.