"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

"Politics: 'The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'"

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal."

"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin."