Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.