If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.