Praise thyself never.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!