The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.