Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

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

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.