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

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.