Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

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

Mistakes are their own instructors

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.