I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

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

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.