Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.