Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

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

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Let valour end my life!

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.