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.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

After death there is nothing.

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.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.