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.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.