A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.