They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.