What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

What can laws do without morals?

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.