Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

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.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.