I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

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

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.