That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.