As Reason Is A Rebel To Faith,

I Have Often Admired The Mystical Way Of Pythagoras, And The Secret Magick Of Numbers.

With What Shift And Pains We Come Into The World We Remember Not; But 'tis Commonly Found No Easy Matter To Get Out Of It.

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.

To Extend Our Memories By Monuments, Whose Death We Daily Pray For, And Whose Duration We Cannot Hope, Without Injury To Our Expectations In The Advent Of The Last Day, Were A Contradiction To Our Belief.

Where Life Is More Terrible Than Death, It Is Then The Truest Valor To Dare To Live.