"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."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

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

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"Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos."

"Even the great get greater by doing more of it."

"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."

"Do what you fear and fear disappears."

"Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal."