This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride