A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.