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

Thrift is of great revenue.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.