What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.