As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.