Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.