Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
When God’s hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
Let man’s soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
Friends are ourselves.
My love though silly is more brave.
Sleep is pain’s easiest salve.
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
Great sorrows cannot speak.