A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.