How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.