One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

Mine is better than ours.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Nothing preaches better than the act.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.