In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

All our endeavours or desires so follow from the necessity of our nature, that they can be understood either through it alone, as their proximate cause, or by …

He whose honour is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the populace is variab…