Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Love of action is not industry.
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.