Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.