The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.