Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

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

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.