Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.