Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.