It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.