It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.