Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.