There is another man within me that's angry with me.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.