Abstinence is easier than temperance.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.