Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.
There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.