"It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife."

"Nothing is certain except death and taxes."

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

"Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible."

"The noblest question in the world is, What good may I do in it?"