We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

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

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.