Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in