We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

Reason speaks and feeling bites