The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.