Hunger is the best pickle.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.