The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

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

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.