Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
Light is the shadow of God.
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.