It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.