A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.