No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.