There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.