Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

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

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

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

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

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.