God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.
Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.
So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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.