All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.