Expediency often silences justice.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher