The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.