If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

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.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

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.