No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

If you wish to be loved, love.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.