Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

No man was ever wise by chance.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.