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.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.