Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Great talkers are little doers.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.