Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.