The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

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.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.