I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

In heaven it is always autumn.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

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?