I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.