Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.