A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.