As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.