Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens