We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.