The religion of one seems madness unto another.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.