Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

There is not a moment without some duty.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.