Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

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

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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.