Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.