Men make the best friends.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

A modest man never talks of himself.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.