The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread

One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell

Be not solitary, be not idle

Idleness is an appendix to nobility

If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

That which is a law today is none tomorrow