To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

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

Lord deliver me from myself.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.