Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.