I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.