Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.