It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.