Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

Knowledge is power.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.