Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.