The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.