The best doctor gives the least medicines.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.