Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Don't set your wit against a child.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.