Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal