Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.