No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

No one can have all he desires.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.