A good death does honour to a whole life.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!