This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Laws are inoperative in war

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.