Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

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