There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

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

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Golden roofs break men's rest.