I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

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.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

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

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