We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.