Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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.