That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.