To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

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.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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