It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Death pays all debts.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.