I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.