Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

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.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.