All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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.

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.

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.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

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.