Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.