It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

• It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
• May you live all the days of your life.
• I row after health like a waterman...
• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
• Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
• One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
• May you live every day of your life.
• How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning