Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Never without a shilling in my purse.