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

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.