Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.