Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
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.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Death is the cure for all diseases.
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.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.