She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.