Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.