Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.