In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
Virtue is the truest liberty.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.