If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.