"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"I perceive that, when an old man has done what he has to do, and has said what he has to say, he is as ready to go as an old clock to strike."