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

“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases”

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

“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.”

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

“Death is the cure for all diseases.”

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

“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.”

“The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.”

“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.”