No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Let valour end my life!

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.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.