There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

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

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.

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

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.