Vice may be had at all prices

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back

Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good

Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death

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

A rich man's joke is always funny

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also