There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.