In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
An undevout astronomer is mad.
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.