Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.