Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.