Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.