He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

The glory is for those who deserve.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.