Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?