For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.