Oblivion is not to be hired.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

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.