The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.