It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.