There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.