I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.