Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

The part of life which we really live is short.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.