It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.