Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.