Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.