There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. - Thomas Browne

For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.

That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.