False shame only is harmful.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.