My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.