The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.