Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.