
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

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

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.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

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.

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.

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.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.