Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Ambition

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Belief

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Charity

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Conversation

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

Disease

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Enemies

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Friends and Friendship

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Heaven

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Life and Living

May you live all the days of your life.

Men

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Optimism

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Power

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Reason

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Shame

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Understanding

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Winners and Winning

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.