Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.