To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Self-denial is the best riches.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

There is no evil without its compensation.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.