He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.

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.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

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.