The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.