Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good |
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. |
Sleep is a death; O make me try, / By sleeping, what it is to die; / And as gently lay my head / On my grave, as now my bed. |
Study prophecies when they are become histories |
That unextinguishable laugh in heaven |
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself |
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying |
The religion of one seems madness unto another |
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves |
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. |
There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we maintain the music of the spheres. |
There is no road or ready way to virtue. |
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. |
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. |
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. |