'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.