The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

The expression of truth is simplicity.