They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.