The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

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

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.