Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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 with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.