Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.