Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.