How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.