The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

In success be moderate.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.