When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.