[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.