Laws without morals are in vain.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.