He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.