Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.