You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.