Each man the architect of his own fate.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
There were few who preferred honor to money.
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.