There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.