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

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.