Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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

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.

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

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

(Death is) A leap into the dark.