For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.