Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

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

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.