God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

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.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

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