It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

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

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.