No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.