See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.