Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Every dog has his day.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.