Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.