Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.