Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.