To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

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

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.