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.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

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.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.