It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

A man of courage is also full of faith.