"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall."

"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise."

"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."

"The man of wisdom is the man of years."

"That life is long which answers life's great end."

"While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

"Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."

"We see time’s furrows on another’s brow, And death intrench’d, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!"

"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven."

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

"By night an atheist half believes a God."

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."

"A Christian is the highest style of man."

"’Tis impious in a good man to be sad"

"A God all mercy is a God unjust."

"Man wants little, nor that little long."

"Wishing, of all employments, is the worst."

"And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."

"Man makes a death which Nature never made."

"The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm."

"... life is most enjoy'd when courted least, most worth, when disesteemed,..."

"Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,—a naked human heart."

"Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love."

"Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay."

"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel."

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

"A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart."

"The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg’d beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven."

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!"

"Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun."

"'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven."

"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."

"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."

"The spirit walks of every day deceased."

"Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched."

"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"

""I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown."

"Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."

"And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."

"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."