There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.