“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”

“Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases”

“We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?”

“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.”

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

“The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.”