There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

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

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.