Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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

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

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

Light is the shadow of God.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.