Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent