It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

There is no power greater than true affection.