Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?