The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.