Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

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

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.

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.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

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.