"The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were." — Francis Quarles

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.