When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.