"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first."

"To cross the sea takes naught but a pair of legs and the will to swim."

"Beware of the flattery of a woman, and the treachery of a man."