No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . ."

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

"When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming."

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