We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

Lord deliver me from myself.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.