Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.