It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still