We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Time discovers truth.

Successful villany is called virtue.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.