I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.