If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

No sober person dances.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.