Light is the shadow of God.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

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.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.