Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.