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.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.