Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.