Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Luck never made a man wise.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

One hand washes the other.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.