"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind"
"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of"
"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour"
"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath"
"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride"
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions"
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed"
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes"
"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced"
"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest"
"May you live all the days of your life"
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind"
