A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

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.