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.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

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

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.