Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.