It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

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

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.