That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.