Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.