Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.