Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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.

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

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.