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.

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.