Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.