Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

No gains without pains.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.