Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!