There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

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

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

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

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.