Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.