Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.