There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

There are two things that turn a boy into a man

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.