Money confounds subordination.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

It is our first duty to serve society.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.