The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.