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.

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.

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

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.