That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Money should be mastered, not served.