And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

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.

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

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.