"Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-- Some break their fast and so depart away; Others stay dinner, then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. O reader, then behold and see! As we are now, so must you be."

Horæ Sucissive (1631).

"But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness."

The Retreat.

"I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays."

They are all gone.

"Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!"

They are all gone.

"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep."

They are all gone.

"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come!"

The Seed growing secretly.

"Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem."

From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney.

"Liars ought to have good memories."

Discourses on Government. Chap. ii. Sect. xv.

"Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small."

Discourses on Government. Chap. ii. Sect. xviii.

"God helps those who help themselves."

Discourses on Government. Chap. ii. Sect. xxiii.

"It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun."

Discourses on Government. Chap. ii. Sect. xxiii.

"Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places."

The Art of Reading.

"And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see."

Pilgrim's Progress. Apology for his Book.

"Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so." Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No.""

Pilgrim's Progress. Apology for his Book.

"The name of the slough was Despond."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"Every fat must stand upon his bottom."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"Dark as pitch."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"The palace Beautiful."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"They came to the Delectable Mountains."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

"Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache."

Pilgrim's Progress. The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim.

"He that is down needs fear no fall."

Pilgrim's Progress. Part ii.

"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed."

Ancient and Modern Learning.

"No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672."

Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255.

"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry.

"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."

Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669.

"Above any Greek or Roman name."

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.

"And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand."

Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.

"Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 27.

"A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 163.

"And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 169.

"Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 174.

"And heaven had wanted one immortal song."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 197.

"But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 198.

"The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!"

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 238.

"Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 268.

"Than a successive title long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301.

"Not only hating David, but the king."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 512.

"Who think too little, and who talk too much."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 534.

"A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 545.

"So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.

"His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645.

"Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 1005.

"Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.

"For every inch that is not fool is rogue."

Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 463.

"Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd."

Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124.

"For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen."

The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 33.

"And kind as kings upon their coronation day."

The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 271.