The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.