The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.