The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.