Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

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.

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

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.