[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.