Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.