We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.