Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.