Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.