The worse a person is the less he feels it.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.