Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

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

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.