A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.