Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

To build is to be robbed.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

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.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.