It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.