Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.