All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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.
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.