He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.