That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

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