If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

For greed, all nature is too little.