» Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
» To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
» If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
» Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
» Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
» Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
» It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
» By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
» We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
» A long dispute means that both parties are wrong