Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

There is no power greater than true affection.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.