Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Leave no stone untamed.