A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.