We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

As the world leads we follow.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

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