Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.