“Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.”

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”

“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”

“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”

“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”