The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.