Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.