Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.