Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.