To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.