Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.