Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.