Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.