Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

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.

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

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