This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

See what daily exercise does for one.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.