Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Lord deliver me from myself.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

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

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.