We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.