He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.