To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Light is but the shadow of God.
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.