It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.