In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.