Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
What if this present were the world’s last night?
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.