After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?