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.

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.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

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

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.