What Is Deferred Is Not Avoided.

The Folly Of Men Has Enhanced The Value Of Gold And Silver Because Of Their Scarcity; Whereas, On The Contrary, It Is Their Opinion That Nature, As An Indulgent Parent, Has Freely Given Us All The Best Things In Great Abundance, Such As Water And Earth, But Has Laid Up And Hid From Us The Things That Are Vain And Useless.

Because The Soul Has Such Deep Roots In Personal And Social Life And Its Values Run So Contrary To Modern Concerns, Caring For The Soul May Well Turn Out To Be A Radical Act, A Challenge To Accepted Norms.

We Cannot Go To Heaven In Featherbeds.

What Though Youth Gave Love And Roses, Age Still Leaves Us Friends And Wine

On His Mounting The Scaffold To Be Beheaded: 'i Pray You, Master Lieutenant, See Me Safely Up, And For My Coming Down, Let Me Shift For Myself.' To The Executioner: 'pick Up Thy Spirits, Man, And Be Not Afraid To Do Thyne Office; My Neck Is Very Short; Take Heed, Therefore Thou Strike Not Awry, For Saving Of Thyne Honesty.'