As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.