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.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.