Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

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

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.