Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.