“Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.
“Life is an incurable disease.”
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
On the Death of Crashaw; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epilogue iii, line 303.