How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'