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

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

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.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.