Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

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.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.