“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young”

“The post of honour is a private station”

“The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action”

“A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature”

“By indignities men come to dignities”

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”