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

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

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.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

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.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

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