When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.