Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

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?

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.