...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.