All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.