The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.