Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.