Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

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.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.