To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.