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

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

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

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

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