Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.