Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.