Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Death pays all debts.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.