How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.