A man's perfection is his work.
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.