The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.