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

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Lord deliver me from myself.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

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