The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

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

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

No man ever became wise by chance.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.