I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

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

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

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Lord deliver me from myself.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.