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

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.