But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Constant dropping wears away stones

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.