Lord deliver me from myself.
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.