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

“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

“Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.”

“Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.”

“This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.”