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

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.