Exercise is labor without weariness.

The future is bought with the present.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.