Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.