But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

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.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

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.