Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.