No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.