Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

He who knows himself knows others.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.