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

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

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

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

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

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.