The best interpreter of the law is custom.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.