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

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.