There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.