The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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.