Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.