A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.