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

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

“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.”

“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying”

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

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

“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.”