Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.