Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

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

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.