I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.