The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.