The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.