Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.