To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.