Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.