Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

In success be moderate.

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

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.