The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

What is the use of a new-born child ?

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?