He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.