"For neither was it fit the Lord of all things Should be unhonour'd, and his works not sung."

"That old man, as you say, who is blind and poor, or, to use your own words, 'blind, poor, and an outcast,' is a person who, on the contrary, is rich, and content with his lot, and far from being an ou…"

"Such as are not fit to marry, are not fit to live."

"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, …"

"Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death."